Category: Media Archive

  • I won’t apologize for my blackness. Lake Views: The Award Winning Student Newspaper of Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego, Oregon 2015-10-07 Camryn Leland It’s not my job to make you feel comfortable. In an article written about the use of the n-word in the NFL it was stated, “The Story of the n-word, in…

  • When I heard the theme for this month was ‘identity’, the word crisis as an appendage kept coming to mind. As a mixed person it, it seems as though the word “crisis” is constantly attached to identity, as though there is confusion somewhere. This is problematic.

  • Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case English 365: The “Great” American Novel: 1900-1965: Prof. VZ College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 2015-02-10 Brooke Fortune Alice Jones with her parents On page 101 of Passing, Irene references the widely publicized case of Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander (“What if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the…

  • It is a matter of regret that in organizing the twelfth census it was determined to attempt no separate enumeration of the mulatto element of our population, — using the term in its popular sense, as denoting all persons having any admixture of white and negro blood. It will not do to say that the…

  • Goucher Social Justice Committee Presents: Rosa Clemente Goucher College Kelly Lecture Hall 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, Maryland Thursday, 2015-10-29, 18:00 EDT (Local Time) Rosa Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, hip-hop activist, journalist, and entrepreneur. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the…

  • “Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford University Center For Educational Research (Room 101) 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, California 2015-10-28, 19:00 PDT (Local Time) “Between Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life” series with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and…

  • Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination Zambombazo 2015-10-23 Zachary & Betsy Jones Introduction During the 2015 Afrolatino Festival of New York in a panel discussion on the contextualization of blackness, William Garcia briefly mentioned working to implement Afro-Latino curriculum in schools, which greatly intrigued us. Thus, we reached out to him to learn more. His amazingly…

  • Panel talks multiracial identity in academics The Michigan Daily 2015-10-27 Alexa St John, Daily Staff Reporter According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University’s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Black Mexico: The African Roots in Mexico Western Connecticut State University Student Center Theater 181 White Street Danbury, Connecticut Wednesday, 2015-10-28, 10:50 EDT (Local Time) Gloria Arjona, Lecturer in Spanish California Institute of Technology, Pasadena In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Dr. Gloria Arjona, a lecturer at CalTech Pasadena and University of Southern California, will…